A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS for short) is a procedure meant to help blood flow more easily through your liver. It’s usually done to treat complications caused by ...
Liver transplant surgery involves replacing an unhealthy liver with a healthy one from a living or deceased donor. Recovery can take up to 1 year, and 5-year survival rates can be as high as 75% ...
Former Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar received a life-saving liver transplant on November 17th after a long battle with ...
Kelsey Adams is more committed than ever to becoming a nurse after recently being one of the first children in the country to benefit from a combination of medical procedures at Children’s Healthcare ...
Immune-based therapies are transforming advanced liver cancer care, resulting in curative options previously considered ...
Ernest House needed a liver transplant. But a heart condition was keeping him off the transplant list. “I would have died,” he says. “There's no doubt about that. My body was failing.” A former ...
Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Right now, patients with obesity and cirrhosis ...
Treating liver cancer and liver metastases — cancer that has spread to the liver from elsewhere in the body — is challenging. Most patients are not candidates for surgery because there are ...
Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa has introduced a new machine that doctors say can destroy certain tumors without the need for ...
Patients who can undergo complete surgical treatment of melanoma liver metastases should consider this option, say oncologists from California. In their experience, hepatic resection for metastatic ...